Emma Szewczak
@emmaszewczak.bsky.social
Writing on medical misogyny for Chatto and Windus (she/her) - Cambridge UK
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Emma Szewczak
@emmaszewczak.bsky.social
· Nov 28
By way of an update/introduction - my book "The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All" co-written by Dr @andrzejharris.bsky.social is finally coming out in May 2025!! Keen to link up with people interested in any aspect of gender violence in healthcare.
The death of woke is Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard thinking this was an appropriate thing to share to her 16 million followers, during Domestic Abuse Awareness month, when a woman or girl is killed by a man known to them every 10 minutes.
October 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The death of woke is Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard thinking this was an appropriate thing to share to her 16 million followers, during Domestic Abuse Awareness month, when a woman or girl is killed by a man known to them every 10 minutes.
New cursed children's book series just dropped
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New cursed children's book series just dropped
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New non-fiction books by the Catz community:
📚 Fellow @andrzejharris.bsky.social (2020) co-wrote 'The Stitch-Up' (2025, Chatto & Windus) with @emmaszewczak.bsky.social
📚 Alumnus Phil Craig (1978, History) is celebrating the publication of '1945: The Reckoning' (2025, @hodderbooks.bsky.social)
📚 Fellow @andrzejharris.bsky.social (2020) co-wrote 'The Stitch-Up' (2025, Chatto & Windus) with @emmaszewczak.bsky.social
📚 Alumnus Phil Craig (1978, History) is celebrating the publication of '1945: The Reckoning' (2025, @hodderbooks.bsky.social)
June 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New non-fiction books by the Catz community:
📚 Fellow @andrzejharris.bsky.social (2020) co-wrote 'The Stitch-Up' (2025, Chatto & Windus) with @emmaszewczak.bsky.social
📚 Alumnus Phil Craig (1978, History) is celebrating the publication of '1945: The Reckoning' (2025, @hodderbooks.bsky.social)
📚 Fellow @andrzejharris.bsky.social (2020) co-wrote 'The Stitch-Up' (2025, Chatto & Windus) with @emmaszewczak.bsky.social
📚 Alumnus Phil Craig (1978, History) is celebrating the publication of '1945: The Reckoning' (2025, @hodderbooks.bsky.social)
Publication day!! Can't believe our book The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All is finally out, it has been a real marathon - a marathon with my cervix hanging out of my vagina for the last 23 and a half miles.
May 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Publication day!! Can't believe our book The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All is finally out, it has been a real marathon - a marathon with my cervix hanging out of my vagina for the last 23 and a half miles.
Well that was a *mad week*. Really looking forward to our book launching on thursday!! (no book launch though because I'm a wet blanket)
May 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Well that was a *mad week*. Really looking forward to our book launching on thursday!! (no book launch though because I'm a wet blanket)
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Very interested to read this (pre-ordered), @emmaszewczak.bsky.social (and all the more so after @doctoroxford.com's review in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
May 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very interested to read this (pre-ordered), @emmaszewczak.bsky.social (and all the more so after @doctoroxford.com's review in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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"Secrecy, stigma, blame & ignorance run like toxic waste through The Stitch-Up, a fierce polemic about the medical misogyny & gender violence that disfigure healthcare."
Delighted to review @emmaszewczak.bsky.social's powerful new book for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Courageous, candid & timely.
Delighted to review @emmaszewczak.bsky.social's powerful new book for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Courageous, candid & timely.
May 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Secrecy, stigma, blame & ignorance run like toxic waste through The Stitch-Up, a fierce polemic about the medical misogyny & gender violence that disfigure healthcare."
Delighted to review @emmaszewczak.bsky.social's powerful new book for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Courageous, candid & timely.
Delighted to review @emmaszewczak.bsky.social's powerful new book for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Courageous, candid & timely.
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Emma Szewczak suffered a devastating prolapse after the birth of her second child. She reveals how the medical profession fails women like her
My midwife looked up and said, ‘Your vagina’s fallen out’
Emma Szewczak suffered a devastating prolapse after the birth of her second child. She reveals how the medical profession fails women like her
www.thetimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Emma Szewczak suffered a devastating prolapse after the birth of her second child. She reveals how the medical profession fails women like her
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The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health. Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed, by @emmaszewczak.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025... via @theguardian.com
The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health
Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed. Here is what I found out after my diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health. Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed, by @emmaszewczak.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025... via @theguardian.com
God when he decided to give us free will
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
God when he decided to give us free will
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Kev's on bluesky... and he's ready
January 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Kev's on bluesky... and he's ready
Leaving my in-laws wearing this after initiating back-to-back arguments all christmas:
January 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Leaving my in-laws wearing this after initiating back-to-back arguments all christmas:
Just realised that Andrzej's parents actively turned motion smoothing back ON after we turned it off in the summer
December 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Just realised that Andrzej's parents actively turned motion smoothing back ON after we turned it off in the summer
Walked into the room in my Lucy and Yak overalls and my Polish Father-in-Law goes "home for christmas from the shipyards of Gdansk"
December 27, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Walked into the room in my Lucy and Yak overalls and my Polish Father-in-Law goes "home for christmas from the shipyards of Gdansk"
I have never in my life wanted to be in the UK before now
In Poland, don't know what a vpn is, sincerely want to hurt every single person talking about Wallace and Gromit
December 25, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I have never in my life wanted to be in the UK before now
In Poland, don't know what a vpn is, sincerely want to hurt every single person talking about Wallace and Gromit
December 25, 2024 at 5:14 PM
In Poland, don't know what a vpn is, sincerely want to hurt every single person talking about Wallace and Gromit
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Bought these Little Miss books in Polish. Thought I'd check the translations. Can you guess the English language titles from these lol
December 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Bought these Little Miss books in Polish. Thought I'd check the translations. Can you guess the English language titles from these lol
I saw mommy fellating santa claus
December 23, 2024 at 7:21 PM
I saw mommy fellating santa claus
51 of the men who raped Gisèle Pelicot
December 19, 2024 at 11:14 PM
51 of the men who raped Gisèle Pelicot
The lengths my GP goes to to try and hide their phone number on their website. Well, good luck, because I've got you on speed dial you stupid bastards
December 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM
The lengths my GP goes to to try and hide their phone number on their website. Well, good luck, because I've got you on speed dial you stupid bastards
Speaking of medical misogyny (😩) my book has a cover now
December 13, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Speaking of medical misogyny (😩) my book has a cover now